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Friday, December 21, 2012

ARRL Asks FCC for Ham Band at 472 kHz

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Rather than waiting five years for the FCC to follow up on the actions of the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), as has b...

ARRL Offers Daily/Hourly LoTW Updates After Major Malfunction

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A bug in the ARRL's Logbook of the World (LoTW) online confirmation system that came to light during the weekend of the CQ World Wide C...

Retired Colonel Named to #2 Spot in Army MARS

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Paul English, WD8DBY (Courtesy Army MARS) Army MARS Chief Stephen Klinefelter has announced the appointment of recently-retired Colon...

KB5TZZ Named Director of Johnson Space Center

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Astronaut Eileen Ochoa, KB5TZZ, will become the 11th director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at the beginning of 2013. She ...

Kornienko (RN3BF) and Kelly to Spend a Year in Space

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Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, RN3BF, and Astronaut Scott Kelly have been chosen to spend a full year aboard the International Space Station ...

Hams Play Role in Production of "Lincoln" Movie

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(White House photo) Nine of the 16 telegraph stations shown in the War Department in the Steven Spielberg movie, "Lincoln," ...

Contesting News Website to Shut Down

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radio-sport.net producer Jamie Dupree, NS3T (NS3T via qrz.com) The contesting news website, radio-sport.net , is going to shut its doo...

South Africa: All Hams Must Re-Apply for Licenses

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The South African government has said it will begin enforcing a rule that limits amateur radio license renewals to five years, after which ...

Visual CW Plans Thwarted by Moon

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View of FITSAT-1's LEDs as observed by Prof. Jun-Ho Oh of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. (Courtesy FITSAT-...

IARU Adds Two New Members

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The national radio societies of Azerbaijan and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the newest members of the International Amateur Radi...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Five CQ "Family" Members Honored by YASME Foundation

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Two contributing editors for CQ Communications magazines and three members of the CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee have been named as rec...
Monday, December 3, 2012

CQ New Products Editor John Wood, WV5J, SK

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John Wood, Sr., WV5J, CQ 's New Products Editor since 2009, passed away on December 3 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 61. A li...
Friday, November 30, 2012

CQ Files Comments in Relicensing Proceeding

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CQ Communications, Inc., the parent company of CQ, CQ VHF, Popular Communications and WorldRadio Online magazines, has filed comments wi...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

FCC Formally Proposes LF Amateur Band

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The FCC has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ET-Docket 12-338) which, among many other things, formally proposes a secondary amat...

CQ Highlighted on "Conan"

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There's an old saying in politics: "I don't care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right." The sam...

One Ham Killed, Another Rescued, in Sinking of HMS Bounty

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(Courtesy tallshipbounty.org) One of the first casualties of Superstorm Sandy was the tall ship HMS Bounty, a replica of the British sa...

Post Office Wants to Phase Out IRCs

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If the U.S. Postal Service has its way, International Reply Coupons (IRCs) will no longer be available for sale after January 27. Accor...

W7EQI Re-Elected to Congress, Gains National Position

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Oregon Congressman Greg Walden, W7EQI, easily won re-election in the 2012 election. Newsline reports that Walden, who is chairman of the ...

China Revamping Amateur Radio Regulations

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B1Z is a contest station of the Chinese Radio Amateurs Club, which is about to receive formal government recognition. (PY2QI photo) Rev...

New Data Mode Uses Chinese Characters

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As the use of amateur radio grows in China, a new digital mode has been developed that uses Chinese characters rather than the Western Eu...
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